Sword Edition:2025 The Astra IIIB has revolutionized

The Astra IIIB has revolutionized celestial navigation

"In this slim book there is so much valuable technical information about why and how weather systems develop and play out… most of us would find it to be an invaluable on-board companion

Skippers & Sextants: A History of Sailing in 50 Inventors and Innovations by George Drower is an engaging exploration of maritime history

he later became a surveyor specialising in fibreglass vessels

the book also features quirky new knots like the Apple Pie knot

Sword Edition:2025 The Astra IIIB has revolutionizedOn 6 June 1944, when the Allied armies landed on D Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years. Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers, never before committed to battle. They quit summer England to face within hours a storm of machine gun and mortar fire. They witnessed scenes above all of sudden death such as no exercise had prepared them for. In Sword, veteran chronicler of war Max